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I came into the auditorium thinking it was a waste of time and all but the performance was better than I expected. Honestly, I really wanted to sleep because I was tired. I was successful in doing so but there were a few moments where I looked up to listen to what the performers were saying. I liked the fact that there was a variety of stories present and that some of them really depicted some aspects of life. The guy farthest to the left was very dramatic and I could tell the audience loved him. Overall, it was a good experience but I was too tired to enjoy it.

To be honest, I simply went to sleep 45 seconds into Baruch Voices, and woke up. I found it pretty pointless listening to nothing but negative issues that everyone else has, because I deal with my own everyday, and everyone around me has the same or worse. I would have rather focused on something more positive. Yes you were supposed to make me think deep and hard, but in Brooklyn everything that was said was an average occurence and we are told to suck it up and move on.  Harsh, I know. On another note, I guess everyone was right in sense that it didn’t make much of a difference to that I registered later because a lot of people started dropping class, so that went well. Not looking forward to any Baruch Voices in my future. Not sorry for being harsh.

Seeing as I have never done a monologue before, I’m not going worry much. Like most kids today, I am not fond of school, and probably never will be. Entering Baruch I felt like it was going to be exactly like high school with the exception of having a lot more freedom. Immediately when I came to Baruch for freshman seminar I thought that Freshman Seminar is going to be a total drag, to be honest it’s only a drag when it comes to having to do assignments for the class. I get a vibe from almost every single teacher, excluding our peer, mentor, and McFadden, that they have either forgotten or never had to work while attending school full time and feel as if every student has it easy and they have no excuses for mistakes. This seriously irritated me throughout the year. Eventually making me quit my job. I can not say that I have as many problems as everyone else, or half of the Baruch Voices crowd. All I can say is that there is still much improvement that should be made to better life while attending Baruch, I turned elsewhere for help, and damn happy that I did. I turned to Brazilian Jujitsu which bettered my life, and helped me stop focusing on the negatives in my life, and focus on the positives, and honestly is one of the few reason why I’m even finishing this semester. I have to also thank our peer, Robi, who was also mad chill throughout the semester and was always eager to help, and was reasonable. Thanks Guys, and that’s about it.

Unlike many of us, I was not mad or anxious maybe because I registered early. I actually enjoyed some of the monologue especially the Asian male actor. His performance was very good and funny. If I was given a choice, I wouldn’t have gone but after the performance I appreciated their hard work in preparing for the performance.  The actors didn’t have to put so much effort in it or even put on the performance at all but they did. It was my pleasure watching them.

– Eric Wu

So here goes anything I can’t say I’ve done a monologue before and I’m not gonna stress over it but i will put some thought into it lol.

First semester of Baruch it started off well and with a pretty big bang lol. I’m surprised at how many friends i already have college is a lot easier when you have people to hang out with and just talk to when times get tough. I can’t say I’m having all the problems that everyone else is having such as problems with class and time management I guess that I got used to all that stuff in high school.  i do kinda wish there was more time in the day it would be a lot easier to actually do what i wanted to do. Sometimes the schedule i have doesn’t actually let me do what i want to do but i guess sometimes you just gotta make sacrifices.

My monologue probably sucks but I tried lol in my opinion it sounds more like a blog but whatever.

lol I agree with Sophie but I’m gonna be harsher.

I hated voices, I feel it was a waste of time but a good try from Baruch. The performers were good but the monologues weren’t up to par. – Alberto

I didn’t really enjoy Voices much. Maybe I would’ve enjoyed it more if it wasn’t for the guy in the glasses walking around telling people to put away their phones or to sit up or something. His presence really annoyed me a lot. Everyone around me was so worried about registration and all. I didn’t really like the acting either.

One of the monologues was written by my friend. The actor didn’t seem like him at all,haha. But the monologue he wrote showed a different side of him. Just the actor was kind of, not him I guess.

Well, I didn’t particularly like Voices, but I don’t hate it.

I guess I’ll have to agree with some of what everyone else is saying. I did expect it to be pretty bad, and I was already in a bad mood about it since I had to register while it was going on. And to be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to the performance in the beginning. I woke up around the time some one wrote about cutting herself, which was pretty shocking. But, towards the end I have to admit the stories some people wrote were really good. The people performing still didn’t amaze me, but there was some merit in the stories, they seemed really personal. The one about breakfast food as curves was funny. All in all, not bad but I wish I could have registered instead. Sorry to those who probably had a hard time rehearsing due to a lack of time.

-Yuval